Tropical Storm Bertha churned toward a second landfall in Texas on Thursday after grazing southern Louisiana in a slow crawl that triggered heavy surf and some flooding along the Gulf Coast but kept the heaviest rains offshore.
Year: 2026
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooting death of a man who police said injured an officer with a knife while resisting arrest has roiled the city of Madison, Wisconsin, with Gov. Tony Evers calling for “transparency and accountability” in any investigation and community members gathering Thursday at a growing memorial.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison on Thursday, a little over a year after the political attacks.
A 56-year-old South Florida man is facing charges after deputies said he posed as a contractor and took payments for work that he never started, let alone completed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him. Lawyers for Smith deny the allegation and say he testified truthfully.
A former JROTC instructor who turned 77 years old on Thursday is now behind bars after Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators accused him of repeatedly sexually battering one of his former students more than two decades ago.
A northwest Miami-Dade man had child sexual abuse material up in “multiple open windows” on a computer when federal law enforcement officers raided his home on Wednesday as part of an international investigation, authorities said.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to killing a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband is set to be sentenced in federal court Thursday.
Police in Broward County are searching for a stabbing suspect who they said killed a man on Wednesday night.
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a rally Wednesday, President Donald Trump touted the $1,000 babies can receive when their parents open Trump Accounts in their names, seed money that Trump says will help give them “a really fair shot at the American dream.”